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  • The community of Mashpee has lost two of its sons to fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan on Friday and Saturday. [Boston Globe]
  • According to a presentation at the American Psychological Association convention, video games can improve coordination and problem-solving skills. Researchers were silent on the chances of getting laid. [Boston Herald]
  • Thanks to—or in spite of—protests by the Special Olympics regarding the use of "retard" in its dialogue, Tropic Thunder became the first movie to surpass The Dark Knight in weekly box office since it opened. [LA Times]
  • When Bostonians have a themed water gun fight, some of the press can't tell the difference between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. [UPI]
  • An asshat gets creative by lighting a notebook before throwing it at his wife. [Patriot Ledger]

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UPI's #1 story at the moment regards some folks in GA who claim to have found the body of Bigfoot, but not in a bog or a swamp or anything. Top news, surely.

What's an asshat and can I use it? It's brilliant!


I recall seeing it in another recent Bostonist post recently, so I had the urge to use it again. I like to think an asshat is somewhere between asshole, toolbox, and douchebag... :-)

~r

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